Yuchen Zhou

Yuchen Zhou

  • yzhou1 at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • PGR
  • Media Production
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Biography

Yuchen is a PGR (PhD candidate) in the Department of Media Production, Faculty of Media, Science and Technology at Bournemouth University. She is also core member of The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre. Her research mainly focuses on Chinese film adaptations based on British literature. She is also highly interested in the areas of filmmaking and screenwriting. Her short film Feeling Good Tonight (director, co-screenwriter) has been selected by the Infinity Film Festival (2023) and Max Sir International Film Festival (2024).

External Responsibilities

  • BEA Festival of Media Arts, Screenplay Judge (2026)
  • BAFTSS Conference 2025, Narration, Storytelling and Adaptation Panel Chair

Conference Presentations

  • International Women’s Writing Association Online Conference, Gendered Adaptation and Cultural Rewriting: Hong Fen Zhi Ji (1943) as a Chinese Reinterpretation of Jane Eyre, 15 Jan 2026, Online
  • Bournemouth University FMC Conference 2025, Dual Drivers of Technology and Policy: The Evolution of the Chinese Film Screenplay Format over the Century, 21 May 2025, Bournemouth, UK
  • BAFTSS Conference 2025, Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Temporal Storytelling in Screenwriting: A Practice-Based Exploration of The Tenants, 26 Mar 2025, Coventry, UK
  • The 16th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference, To anywhere and anytime: How time travel is realised through cross-cultural adaptation script writing practices, 27 Nov 2024, Bournemouth, UK
  • Screen writing Research Network Conference 2024, From Barbara to Barbara: Exploring the dialogue of cross-cultural adaptation through adaptation practices., 11 Sep 2024, Olomouc, Czech Republic
  • The 15th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference, From words to moving images: Relocating British Literature to Chinese Film, 29 Nov 2023, Bournemouth, UK

Attended Training

  • Introduction to Education Practice for Postgraduate Research Students, 13 Feb 2023
  • Becoming an Ethical Researcher, 07 Oct 2022
  • Research Data Management
  • Analysing Qualitative Data
  • Bournemouth University Data Protection Training Module
  • Research Ethics in Practice

Memberships

  • Women's Writing Association, Member (2026-),
  • Association of Adaptation Studies, Member (2024-),
  • British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, Member (2024-),
  • Women's Film and Television History Network, Member (2024-),
  • Screenwriting Research Network, Member (2023-),